Physics faculty member Louis Schwartzkopf will discuss “Environmental Crises and Climate Change” during the annual Kessel Memorial Lecture Tuesday, March 23, at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
The lecture, free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium of the Centennial Student Union. Schwartzkopf will talk about “What We Know, How We Know It, And Why It Matters” regarding climate change and the environment.
Schwartzkopf has been a Minnesota State Mankato physics faculty member for 27 years. He earned a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
He co-holds four patents in the field of superconductivity, and he has published many articles. He also is co-author of an article and a book in progress about peak oil and the ramifications of the energy crisis.
Currently he is researching the relationships among population, resources and energy efficiency in buildings.
The annual Kessel Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Political Science/Law Enforcement. It honors the late Abbas Kessel, who taught in the department for many years and dedicated himself to activism in the fields of peace, human rights and energy policy.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,950 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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